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@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ For a while, I've been thinking about time travel, and how I would identify myse
Anyway, I always thought that those elaborate passwords other nerds use to identify themselves seemed a bit weird. I could just, you know, talk about a private memory I never shared, like my first experience of love. I can always expect me to know that, unless I have to convince, like, 3-year-old me, in which case why bother?
So today I was cooking some sweet pasta, and I thought, hey I have this linguistic quirk in German where I use the wrong gender for a certain item because I learned it wrong as a child or something, I could use that. No, I talked about this once on Usenet, *way* back, that wouldn't do. But wait - if someone went through all that trouble, researched me *that* well, shouldn't we team up anyway, screw the identity? I instantly thought, that's fine, anyone who understands me is automatically *like* me. If you look into the muflax, the muflax looks back at into you, right?
So today I was cooking some sweet pasta, and I thought, hey I have this linguistic quirk in German where I use the wrong gender for a certain item because I learned it wrong as a child or something, I could use that. No, I talked about this once on Usenet, *way* back, that wouldn't do. But wait - if someone went through all that trouble, researched me *that* well, shouldn't we team up anyway, screw the identity? I instantly thought, that's fine, anyone who understands me is automatically *like* me. If you look into the muflax, the muflax looks back into you, right?
Then, enlightenment. *Unity of knowledge and action*, bitches. Anyone who understands me, is not just like me, but must act like me, and so *is* me. Thus, the skill should really be a passive feat, a truly eldritch ability, reserved for an [Ancient Chinese Vampire][Wang Yangming] who can't seem to die. Many adventurers have tried to kill him, but in preparation of their quest, they have studied their foe, and to their horror, the more they learn about him, the more they *become* like him. Chessmasters have plotted against him, but as they predict his actions, the knowledge takes over their minds and turns them into his willing minions. [Whole empires][Yangming Influence] have fallen under his influence merely from studying his texts, and like a certain [Greek Vampire][Aristotle], even the wisest of men have failed to defeat him in battle yet.